Name: Lost & Broken
Duration: P00H02M52S
Description: Words & music by Ed Wenn.

Lost & Broken

from Gateway to the South by Big Ray

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Words & music by Ed Wenn.

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This shitty world has got me beat
And I don't understand a thing.
There's people paid to tell me lies;
They fabricate and fantasise.
And so I am the misinformed,
Manipulated, but adorned.
Unrepresented and disinclined
A 21st century state of mind

And I feel lost and broken down tonight
If this is the way it's gonna be forever?
The world feels lost and broken down tonight.

Well, if there's good it's hard to see.
There's profit, greed, hypocrisy.
And people paid to sell me dreams;
Of life, love and all the in-betweens.
There's millions trying just to stay alive
Trying to make it through another night.
We're brought up to take this and that
And not to give a damn thing back.

So get off your knees and start to fight tonight,
Or things will stay this way forever.
Get off your knees and change your life tonight.
So get off your knees and start to fight tonight,
Don't let things stay this way forever.
And then the world won't seem so broken any more.

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from Gateway to the South, released February 1, 2014
Ed Wenn
Vocals, acoustic guitars & lead guitar

John Ruscoe
Electric guitar

Paul Duncan
Bass & ukuleles

Marc Maitland
Snare drum

Steve Cox
Organ

Dan Goatham
Harmony vocals

Rich Matthews
Percussion & bass drum

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Big Ray London, UK

Big Ray has been around in various incarnations since 1991 lurching from 'full time band' to 'state of mind' & all flavours in-between. The personnel shifts & expands, but centres around Ed Wenn & 2 or 3 close friends. The musical starting point has remained constant; a mix of The Who, The Kinks, Big Star, CSNY & Steve Earle layered over a punk rock sensibility & attitude. ... more

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